I'm running Fedora 19 64-bit with kernel 3.10.4-300. I have three usb devices handy: two USB sticks (a Transcend and a Kingston) and an iPod. Some time today I found that my laptop stopped recognizing the Kingston and the iPod. dmesg and lsusb both acknowledge their existences, but they don't appear as block devices in /dev/ and no generic application that I use (e.g. gnome-disks and nautilus) can work with them.
And now that I've had the problematic Kingston and iPod both plugged in for a while, they suddenly appear like magic in /proc/partitions. After button-mashing "cat /proc/partitions" a few times, I watched it recognize the iPod as sdd, and slowly it realized that there were sdd1 and sdd2 as well. At this point I could (as root) eject /dev/sdd1, for example; but none of the GUI tools I usually use as a desktop user could do anything.
EDIT: I'm trying not to sound hysterical, but I admit this causes me some distress. I don't think I suck TOO badly at using Google, and I am not sure my situation is normal. My searches turn up nothing, and I guess the freenode staff on #fedora aren't really in the mood. A newbie is lost and very sad.
EDIT no.2: Aha. I booted kernel 3.9.9-302 and the problem goes away. I won't mark this as a solution quite yet, though, because I can't stay with this kernel forever.
EDIT no. 3: Kernel 3.10.3-300 exhibits the same broken behavior (duh. I was using that kernel before I tried running an upgrade to solve the problem in the first place. Whoops).
And now that I've had the problematic Kingston and iPod both plugged in for a while, they suddenly appear like magic in /proc/partitions. After button-mashing "cat /proc/partitions" a few times, I watched it recognize the iPod as sdd, and slowly it realized that there were sdd1 and sdd2 as well. At this point I could (as root) eject /dev/sdd1, for example; but none of the GUI tools I usually use as a desktop user could do anything.
EDIT: I'm trying not to sound hysterical, but I admit this causes me some distress. I don't think I suck TOO badly at using Google, and I am not sure my situation is normal. My searches turn up nothing, and I guess the freenode staff on #fedora aren't really in the mood. A newbie is lost and very sad.
EDIT no.2: Aha. I booted kernel 3.9.9-302 and the problem goes away. I won't mark this as a solution quite yet, though, because I can't stay with this kernel forever.
EDIT no. 3: Kernel 3.10.3-300 exhibits the same broken behavior (duh. I was using that kernel before I tried running an upgrade to solve the problem in the first place. Whoops).